Planning @50: What is its future?
This article is part of a series of articles marking the 50th birthday of planning. Read more.
There was a time, some years back, when I was most definitely hanging out with the wrong sort, the boys from the wrong side of the tracks. Not like really wrong – it was the suburbs of middle England after all –but relatively wrong. Boys who 'nosed the brie', wore pockets on their shirts and held their knives 'like pens'. My teacher, Miss Gledhill, took me to one side...